2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:02:09PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> >> I've read that Fedora and Ubuntu already are using the new driver models
> >> (or something along those lines) so what's been the experience so far?
> 
> mac80211 drivers work pretty well for iwl3945, bcm43xx-mac80211 and
> zd1211rw-mac80211 that I have experience with.

Good to hear! :-)

> iwconfig to see the device state and to set option on it.  Something to
> be aware of: mac80211 insists the interface is down (meaning, eg,
> ifconfig wlan0 down) before it can have its iwconfig mode set and to be
> up before you can set the channel ;-)

It also likes it better if you do 'iwlist wlan0 scan' before you ever
do 'iwconfig wlan0 essid <ESSID>'.

John
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